AP Poll 10/3

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1995

10/3/1995

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Florida State (37)	1,522	1
2	Nebraska (17)	1,489	2
3	Florida (2)	1,384	3
4	Colorado (6)	1,381	4
5	Ohio State	1,292	7
5	USC	1,292	5
7	Michigan	1,181	8
8	Texas A&M	1,068	9
9	Virginia	1,027	11
10	Tennessee	971	12
11	Auburn	961	13
12	Penn State	801	6
13	Kansas State	737	16
14	Oklahoma	654	10
15	Washington	579	18
16	Alabama	545	20
17	Oregon	470	19
18	Arkansas	438	23
19	Stanford	415	22
20	Texas	378	21
21	LSU	359	14
22	Wisconsin	308	NR
23	Notre Dame	258	15
24	Kansas	223	25
25	Northwestern	147	NR

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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The Associated Press began running polls of sports writers to determine who is, by popular opinion, the best college football team in the country. The first AP Poll was run in 1934 but was not run continuously until 1936.

The AP Poll currently lists the top 25 teams in the nation. From 1936 to 1961 the poll only ranked the top 20 teams. From 1962 to 1967 it only ranked the top 10 teams. From 1968 to 1988 the AP Poll returned to ranking the top 20 teams. In 1989 they started ranking the top 25 teams.

The AP poll was used in the beginning of the BCS to calculate the team standings. Due to some controversies within the BCS, the AP Poll was pulled from these calculations which caused the BCS to create the new Harris Poll.